[1448] This document, issued in pamphlet form in 1804, is highly important. There can be little doubt that Marshall read it attentively, since it proposed a submission of the acrimonious controversy to the Supreme Court.
[1449] The Postmaster-General was not made a member of the Cabinet until 1829.
[1450] See supra, chap. iv.
[1451] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1023.
[1452] Cutler, ii, 182.
[1453] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1024. To such extravagance and inaccuracy does the frenzy of combat sometimes drive the most honest of men. When he made these assertions, John Randolph knew that scores of purchasers from the land companies had invested in absolute good faith and before Georgia had passed the rescinding act. His tirade done, however, this inexplicable man spoke words of sound though misapplied statesmanship.
[1454] Ib. 1029-30.
[1455] Referring to Granger's speculations in the Western Reserve.
[1456] The Yazoo deal.
[1457] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1031.